ReferenceError: console is not defined

[sutto]

ReferenceError: console is not defined

[netzpirat]

I had the same problem and did some investigation: The root cause for this issue is a bug in locating the node binary in ruby-coffee-script, that has been introduced in the last version by this commit.

You can work around this bug by simply configure the bin_path:

Barista.configure do |config|
    config.bin_path = '/usr/local/bin/node'
end 

[netzpirat]

I have filed an issue for ruby-coffee-script and sent a pull request that resolves this issue.

[sunaku]

Thanks netzpirat. I tried upgrading to the newly released coffee-script 2.1.3 gem but the same error still occurs. Next I tried setting config.bin_path = 'node' as you suggested and that fixed the error for me.

With some more investigation, I found that I installed nodejs on my Ubuntu machine and then also made a newer local node.js installation via NVM. CoffeeScript was installed locally in my NVM build, but not in the system-wide Ubuntu installation. That was the root cause of those errors.

I uninstalled the system-wide nodejs and now the problem is fully solved!